Now you already now the answer to that question.

The article makes clear:

The Illinois senator isn't accused of any wrongdoing. And there's no evidence Obama knew contributions to his 2004 U.S. Senate campaign came from schemes Rezko is accused of orchestrating.

    Q. What is Sen. Obama's reaction to being referred to in the Rezko evidentiary proffer?
    A. We have no way of knowing he is the politician named here but we returned this money months ago for other reasons.

   Q. Was Sen. Obama aware that Rezko allegedly had directed at least one person to donate to the senator's campaign and later reimbursed that person, possibly violating federal election law?

   A. No.

   Q. Has the Federal Election Commission or the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago contacted the senator or any of his representatives about these matters?

   A. No.

   Q. Why has the senator donated to charity campaign contributions from Rezko and Rezko-linked people?

   A. In keeping with our practice of donating to charity donations from people who have been called into question through the legal process, when he was named in documents as potentially engaging in wrongdoing we thought it was appropriate to return his donation to charity.

   Q. Does the senator think this development will have any impact on the presidential campaign or undercut the senator's message that he is an agent of change?

   A. No. In fact, Sen. Obama has been a champion of reforms that have made campaign finance laws more transparent so that the public can more closely follow the source of contributions to campaigns. As with any campaign, occasionally individual contributions are called into question. Sen. Obama's policy in such instances is to donate that money to charity which is what he did in this case seven months ago when questions first surfaced.

Hsu gave money to many dems, including Obama, right?

political Godfather as Obama often publicly did with rezko.

Hillary was never personal pals with Hsu.

Hillary never did legal work for Hsu.

Hsu was show off wh ran a ponzi plan, but he never has been charged with bribing politicians like Rezko.

hillary never had a law partner that became  partners with an illegal low income housing venture and scheme llke obama did with Rezko.

Hillary never asked Hsu to help buy her own house for her, saving herself close to a million bucks doing so,  like Rezko did with Obama.

and then lied about it to EVERYONE.

Peter F Paul, Lewinsky,Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willy, Juanita Broderick, Mark Rich pardon to name just a few Clinton scandals out there, it's practically a suicidal death wish for the Democratic party to nominate Clinton. Why don't people realize that?

a problem for Hillary and her sleazy corrupt money machine

Truth, you've been saying that Rezko was going be Obama's downfall. I'm stating to think you are correct.

I quote the Sun-Times article:

That money was donated to Obama by Joseph Aramanda, a Glenview businessman and Rezko associate who, sources have said, is the "Individual D" prosecutors say received the $250,000 in finder's fees demanded by Rezko. Individual D did nothing to earn those fees, according to prosecutors.

The $10,000 contribution to Obama was given in Aramanda's name on March 5, 2004, records show. While Obama's camp has said the senator did not know Aramanda, Obama's office hired Aramanda's son as an intern in 2005, at Rezko's urging.

Repeated attempts to reach Aramanda, who was involved in pizza franchises Rezko owned, were unsuccessful. He has not been charged with any wrongdoing.

You have no shame. None of those facts implicate Obama in any wrongdoing. He has an old friend and political supporter who has turned out to be a scumbag in his financial affairs. Obama has admitted that it was a mistake to have allowed Rezco to help him buy his first house, which by the way he paid full price for and Rezco did not by "half the property", he bought a small strip of land next door that needed to be purchased at the same time.

Everything else cited has nothing to do with Obama.

is that what this thread is all about.  The Democratic party has been reduces to indictment by Rumor.

Keep in mind that Rezko subsidized the purchase of Obama's house.

Rezko is also very likely the reason that Obama can't find any of his law firm billing records or his state senate schedules or notes.

The relationship between Rezko and Obama goes back at least to Obama's law school days, when Rezko tried to hire him for his development company. Instead, Obama took a position with the law firm that handled Rezko's real estate development work. Until the presidential run, Obama was listed as practicing real estate law. Those references were scrubbed for the Presidential campaign, in favor of "civil rights law".

a house he couldnt afford and couldnt get a lone on, but still HAD TO HAVE, and came up with the krazy plan to split the property from the house and get a known "influence peddler" to pony up, would be the commercial the gop would run on a loop and it alone would cost us 08...

but the bigger trouble is with the low income housing and the role of obamas law firm and Obaama's work as a state senator in getting funding for the project.

But, of course...Obama says it was all just a  "boneheaded mistake" and his fans buy this without thought or question.

Now THAT'S Boneheaded!

My contention has long been that this could well KILL our nominee, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OBAMA DID ANYTHING WRONG.

This is not a one-time contribution thing.  There is no simple deniability here.   His ties to the indicted Rezko go waaaaay back, for years, on every level.  Fundraising parties in his home, Rezko was his finance co-chair, etc.

The Republicans have been sitting on this hoping that it would stay  under the radar until Obama was nominated.

If crap like this starts hitting the front pages AFTER Obama is nominated, you could kiss the general election goodbye.  The Repugs will have a field day, because there is just too much juiciness there.  It has nothing to do with whether Obama did anything shady. There are just TOO many connections, and the general will turn into battling the Rezko crap, not battling the Republican candidate.

Sorry, but that's the political reality.

In Magical Obamaworld, "he denied it = debunked"  

I'm sure that Rove et al, when Obama denies something, are going to say, "Well, thank you Senator Obama.  I'm so glad we cleared that up." and walk away.

Of course he didn't do anything technically illegal. He's a frickin' Harvard Law School grad. He knows how to structure deals -- just like the way he structure his house purchase so that a corrupt Chicago fixer could buy part of his house for him legally.

How about directing your fire to his hometown newspaper.

I don't know how you would not be alarmed that your candidate might be linked or named in a federal indictment.

In an ideal world that might end the presidential prospect of any other candidate if the media picked it up and ran with it , but I won't hold my breadth .

It undermines Obama 's candidacy a whole lot , just like Clinton said he hasn't been vetted.

a house he couldnt afford or get a loan for with a well known political fixer -now charged  with BRIBING politicians..

Nobody except Michelle Obama of course

This bunch of hysterical ninnies has the lowest trigger point of an organized lynch mob that I've ever seen.  They go off at the least suggestion of something in Obama's past.  They just run around like Chicken LIttle and look like major league ninnies.  How can anyone take any of this crap seriously?

It's one of a gazillion little fundraising scandals that happen all the time. If the Obamanauts can't tell the difference between this and the Rezko tangle they are either being stupid or disingenuous. More likely the latter. You can tell by the knee jerk mention of Hsu, it will be cattle futures next. This story like Rezko's indictment a week or two back is only important if it gets legs. It is potentially of a totally different order of magnitude to the Hsu matter because of the myriad of connections between Obama and family. If this gets some traction this is potentially immensely damaging whatever the deniers claim. If it doesn't get legs, it don't matter a damn.      

who saved him $950,000 on a 2.6  million dollar house, who he got state funding for on his now bankrupted and fraudulent low income housing scheme, is about to come to trial for fraud AND political bribery...

and you pretend this means nothing.

Right....

You completely overstate the case in an effort to distract attention from this matter. The Hsu "scandal" was never devastating otherwise the campaign would be over and Obama would have nom wrapped up. No doubt the Clinton fans overstate case too but make no mistake if this gets traction it's much more dangerous than the Hsu matter because of the myriad of connections. By all means state the Clinton fans are hyping this but by making ridiculous claims you just weaken your case.    

The Illinois senator isn't accused of any wrongdoing. And there's no evidence Obama knew contributions to his 2004 U.S. Senate campaign came from schemes Rezko is accused of orchestrating.

Rezko is Obama's idea of "building housing for the poor". No wonder he thinks Republicans are the party of ideas.

Here's the Rezko idea: get rich off cronyism and no-bid deals with government patrons while screwing the little guy.

Give us a little UNBIASED opinion on this.  

There is a huge load of guilt by association, and little fact of any sort, as far as I can tell.

The quid pro quo that is alleged is again very tangential.

Yes please do since Obama is not named in the indictment.

barely..

I don't think Obama was stupid enough to do anything to get himself indicted. His kickback from Rezko was $925,000 towards the purchase of a house Obama couldn't afford. That deal was structured to pass the legal test, even though it stinks to high heaven on the "sniff" test.

Indictment for what?

This is like the article in the NY Post alleging Obama played JZ.

between Rezko and Obama, it requires a degree in nuclear physics and advanced accounting knowledge.  The facts, as far as I can see it, is that Mr. Rezko is under indictment, he in the past hosted fund-raisers for Obama and gave him money, and R helped O buy a house.  

That's what we've got.

The Hillary-bots are telling everyone in tones of hysteria and high dudgeon that Obama helped Rezko.  In point of fact, he did help him, and the help is all detailed in many contracts.  Oddly enough, in America the land of capitalism, people work together all the time to make deals.  So, I am just at a loss to see why THESE deals are bad, and the millions of other deals of exactly the same kind are just normal and unremarkable.

It's Karl Rove stuff - you say it often enough, loudly enough and with great passion, and the ninnies begin to believe it. Of course, before Karl, this was the Goebbels technique - the big lie.

The post is calling attention to a breaking news story in a major US newspaper that Obama is referenced (not by name) in the major corruption indictment of Obama's top Chicago political patron.

Which scheme? Rezko had quite a few schemes working to profit off his tight crony relationships with Illinois politicians.

that Rezko is also linked to Blagojevich, our lovely governor.

So the unnamed politician may be Obama or may be Blagojevich, or may be Daley.  Illinois is a target-rich political environment.

He never stopped flipping the race card. He had surrogates in South Carolina yesterday giving media interviews saying that Clinton questioning his "experience" is perceived as a racist attack "in the community".